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Re-creation?

I thought that recording was just a recreation. 2800:200:ED40:1154:89D0:BC8:2C80:3611 (talk) 19:00, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, there’s no chain of custody so we don’t know if it’s the real thing or not. The audio quality is pretty good so it sounds like it came straight out of the TV studio console if it’s real. What gets me is how dumb the message is. This is straight out of a 1950s B movie script, even for the 1970s. Viriditas (talk) 00:23, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not revert my removal of the audio again.

Regardless of whether or not it's a recreation (and I personally believe it is), its origin point is just some random youtube video from some random youtube channel, almost the dictionary definition of an unreliable source. SingleIssueMotor (talk) 19:43, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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-== Existence of the tape ==
+== Re-creation? ==
+I thought that recording was just a recreation. [[Special:Contributions/2800:200:ED40:1154:89D0:BC8:2C80:3611|2800:200:ED40:1154:89D0:BC8:2C80:3611]] ([[User talk:2800:200:ED40:1154:89D0:BC8:2C80:3611|talk]]) 19:00, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
-An earlier version claimed that it is uncertain whether a tape recording still exists. However on youtube a recording of the event (sound & video) can be found. I have changed this part of the article and also added a link to youtube.  <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/193.83.175.187|193.83.175.187]] ([[User talk:193.83.175.187#top|talk]]) 09:19, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
-: Unfortunately the video in question is an obvious forgery. You can tell immediately that the pictures and sound do not align - you're seeing footage of Cliff Michelmore reading the weekday Southern local regional news, but the audio is from a national weekend bulletin from ITN. The audio is /possibly/ genuine (what purports to be a recording from the time does exist) but the video is a very poor fake. I seem to remember The Independent also linked to it once, claiming it to be genuine, but it certainly is not. [[User:Bonusballs|Bonusballs]] ([[User talk:Bonusballs|talk]]) 10:03, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
+:Yeah, there’s no chain of custody so we don’t know if it’s the real thing or not.  The audio quality is pretty good so it sounds like it came straight out of the TV studio console if it’s real. What gets me is how dumb the message is.  This is straight out of a 1950s B movie script, even for the 1970s. [[User:Viriditas|Viriditas]] ([[User talk:Viriditas|talk]]) 00:23, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
+== Please do not revert my removal of the audio again. ==
-: I understand your Argument. Since I am not a native speaker I cannot see it as a "poor fake". The fact that the Independent linked to it supports the argument that the situation might not be crystal clear. Are there any reliable sources dealing with the authenticity of the video? My view is that a link of the video should be included, nonetheless with a clear warning that it might be a fake.
+Regardless of whether or not it's a recreation (and I personally believe it is), its origin point is just some random youtube video from some random youtube channel, almost the dictionary definition of an unreliable source. [[User:SingleIssueMotor|SingleIssueMotor]] ([[User talk:SingleIssueMotor|talk]]) 19:43, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
-== Are spacemen hippies? ==
-So aliens happen to have cliche science fiction names, and spout the middle class New Age platitudes of the time? (Did they watch the original "[[Day the Earth Stood Still]]''?) --[[User:MacRusgail|MacRusgail]] ([[User talk:MacRusgail|talk]]) 16:14, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
-:I don't see why there is any prevailing reason to assume that "aliens" wouldn't "speak" that way, especially if "they" were making an attempt to communicate..why would they not attempt to use the terms,accents, and observed "slang" of the people they were trying to communicate with?
-Besides how do we know it is not some "intergalactic" joke "they" are trying to fool us with? It might be a dangerous assumption to decide that "we" already know how,with whom, and with what level of social etiquette "they" would attempt to communicate with "us".
-Interesting you should mention "Day the Earth Stood Still" since in that story it seems such kinds of assumptions are very much challenged at least in the film, as Klaathu proceeds to acknowledge the hopes of a kid and a doctor over the demands of a leading government official.[[Special:Contributions/67.175.142.237|67.175.142.237]] ([[User talk:67.175.142.237|talk]]) 19:24, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
-::I was hoping the aliens would have a little class. Actually, MacRusgail's post just solidifies the article's point about this being a (rather pathetic) hoax.[[Special:Contributions/104.169.28.113|104.169.28.113]] ([[User talk:104.169.28.113|talk]]) 18:07, 26 November 2017 (UTC)